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Puzzle It Out D o you like to work on puzzles? I’ve found that people are very divided on doing puzzles. Some love them, and others do not! Last year, when the pandemic had us fully locked down at home, our family looked for activities we could do indoors and together. As we’d never been “puzzle people” before, we decided to try it. My daughter found a 3,000-piece jigsaw puzzle that had a very complicated but beautiful picture and we set out to put it together. 30
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The first thing we did was find all the edge pieces and worked together to build the “frame” of the picture. Then we looked at the sample picture we were trying to create, and organized the pieces by color, attempting to group similar colors and images. Then we started looking at the shapes of pieces and trying to find pieces that fit together. It took us about six days to complete, and we spent a couple of hours on it each evening. My son hated it. My daughter and husband were determined to
conquer it, and I had a mixture of both feelings. But when we had the final product completed, it was so pretty, and we felt very accomplished. We even framed it and have it hung on a wall as art and to remind us of a very strange time in our lives. Did you know puzzles are great for increasing your brainpower? Figuring out puzzles is a form of problem solving, and that is a very important skill to develop as we grow up. Puzzles can be a solo activity or one to do with friends and family. They Illustration: Xuan Le
